test: introduce group order byte-array constant for deduplication #1745

tiny q: why not use capital letters for a constant? It’s usually the convention to distinguish functions vs constants so we don't have to search for its definition.

Fair question. It seems that we use capital letters mainly for constants and macros defined with the preprocessor (i.e. #define ...), where as actual global constant objects are still in lowercase, see e.g.

$ git grep "^static const"

vs.

$ git grep "^#define"

Maybe it's worth it to add that to the style conventions section in CONTRIBUTING.md (and fix the few exceptions that don't follow this conventions, e.g. SECP256K1_SIGNED{30,62}_ONE).

Don’t you feel this is one of those things so widely accepted that it’s strange to have to formally state it? It’s like seeing someone write class members in capital letters.

In any case, it was a tiny question anyway. The upside of this change is that we can script any future change, since everything uses the same variable now.